23 Facts About Guarani people

The traditional range of the Guarani people is in present-day Paraguay between the Parana River and lower Paraguay River, the Misiones Province of Argentina, southern Brazil once as far east as Rio de Janeiro, and parts of Uruguay and Bolivia.

In modern Spanish, Guarani people refers to any Paraguayan national in the same way that the French are sometimes called Gauls.

The term Guarani people was originally applied by early Jesuit missionaries to refer to natives who had accepted conversion to the Christian religion; Cayua or Caingua was used to refer to those who had refused it.

Barbara Ganson writes that the name Guarani people was given by the Spanish as it means "warrior" in the Tupi-Guarani people dialect spoken there.

Sacred Iguazu Falls hold special significance for the Guarani people and are the inspiration for numerous myths and legends.

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On his return, he made acquaintance with the Guarani people and founded the city of Asuncion, later the capital of Paraguay.

Guarani people's departure left the Jesuits alone with their missionary work, and to defend the natives against slave dealers.

Today, the Guarani people language is an official language of Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, and Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil.

The Guarani people helped grow the crops to sustain the missions' populations and produce goods to sell and trade to fund the missions.

In 1638, despite some successful resistance, all twelve of the missions beyond the Uruguay were abandoned and their Guarani people consolidated with the community of the Missions Territory.

The Guarani people left the missions but some of them didn't go back to the forest or traditional ways.

Catholics and educated, the Guarani people used the knowledge they learned from the Jesuits and became citizens working in various professions.

Debret's depicted wealthy Guarani people living in Rio when the Portuguese Royal Family resided there and it was the capital of the Portuguese Empire.

Guarani people language has been much cultivated, its literature covering a wide range of subjects.

Guarani people were later described, amongst many other historical documents in existence today, in 1903 by Croatian explorers Mirko and Stjepan Seljan.

The Guarani people villages located in the south of Brazil and in the north of Argentina are more marginalized due to European immigration following the First and Second World Wars.

Many Guarani people do not speak Spanish and the European immigrant population does not speak Guarani people.

Guarani people became part of the required curriculum in public schools during the ten years since the ousting of dictator Alfredo Stroessner in 1989.

Guarani people had a great cultural influence on the countries they inhabited.

The novel The Guarani people is regarded as a foundational text of Brazilian Romanticism, and has been adapted twice to film.

The Guarani people are depicted in films like The Mission and O Tempo e o Vento.

Tupi-Guarani people languages were spoken in almost all of eastern South America, including its Northern part.

Many Guarani people words were absorbed to every local language it coexisted with, for example; in Argentine-Uruguayan Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Bolivian Spanish or English.